Embattled Florida congressman Matt Gaetz backs Steve Bannon over House vote to ...

Embattled Florida congressman Matt Gaetz backs Steve Bannon over House vote to ...
Embattled Florida congressman Matt Gaetz backs Steve Bannon over House vote to ...

Steve Bannon on Wednesday asked Matt Gaetz to explain his theory that Bannon's contempt of Congress was 'a set up', asking the Florida Congressman if he felt Joe Biden was in on the act.

Bannon, the former White House chief strategist, has refused to cooperate with the January 6 Committee, which is investigating the Capitol insurrection. Donald Trump is also refusing to cooperate, and has told his chief of staff, Mark Meadows, to do the same.

As a result, on Wednesday the House Rules Committee voted for a procedure for the House to hold Bannon in contempt of Congress – setting up a bitter floor clash for Thursday over the riot and its aftermath.

Bannon then invited the staunchly pro-Trump congressman onto his show to discuss the day's events.

'About Merrick Garland,' Bannon began, referencing the Attorney General.

'Give our audience some inside baseball.

'You're saying the Attorney General is coming out tomorrow.

'And you've said for a while this is all a set up.

'They'll do the committee one night, the rules the next afternoon; bring the AG up and then have the vote in the house.

'Walk us through - why was he coming up to Capitol Hill? What was he supposed to be doing?'

Steve Bannon on Wednesday hosted Congressman Matt Gaetz on his podcast

Steve Bannon on Wednesday hosted Congressman Matt Gaetz on his podcast

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Gaetz told Bannon he believed they were witnessing a concerted attempt to persecute Bannon, saying it was a plot 'stitched together'. 

'Merrick Garland's appearance before the House Judiciary Committee tomorrow has been purposefully synched with the actions you saw in the Rules Committee today and the votes that will occur to hold you in contempt of Congress,' Gaetz said.

Bannon, who served as Trump's chief strategist in the first six months of his presidency, is refusing to cooperate with a committee investigating the Capitol riot

Bannon, who served as Trump's chief strategist in the first six months of his presidency, is refusing to cooperate with a committee investigating the Capitol riot

'That is all being stitched together.'

Gaetz said the administration was 'trying to create a wholly-enclosed ecosystem of the political persecution in the Congress, and the enforcement tools of the Department of Justice.'

He added: 'I have often said that one of the scariest things I have observed is that the FBI really has become the enforcement wing of the Democratic Party in a lot of circumstances.'

Gaetz said that Jeff Sessions, Trump's first Attorney General, had not been proactive enough for them - accusing him of being too favorable to the Democrats who he believed run the Justice Department. 

'Sessions went over there and got Stockholm Syndrome,' said Gaetz.

'He became sympathetic with his captors at the Justice Department.'

Gaetz also accused Garland of holding a grudge against Republicans, pointing out that Garland's nomination to the Supreme Court was blocked by Mitch

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